After the two boxes of bees are swapped, will there be a phenomenon of encircling the king and fighting, many novices have not tried it, and they dare not try it. Then, next, Bee Yuyu will spread out this problem, crumple it, and explain it in detail, as long as novice friends operate in this way, there will be no problems.
The operation of swapping the positions of two boxes of bees can not only be used to quickly relieve the bee colony fever, but also to balance the swarm potential of strong and weak bee colonies. There is a necessary premise for such a simple and direct exchange of positions, which must be the honey flow period, and it is the big honey flow period. Otherwise, the bees will fight or even surround the king.
So, if it's not the big honey season, can the positions of the two boxes of bees be swapped? Of course you can, but with one more measure. The reason is very simple, the operation is not complicated, as long as you understand the principle and operation of bee colony merging, the problem will be solved.
First of all, choose a sunny morning, move the two boxes of bees that need to be reversed to the side, move about a beehive distance, and place two empty beehives prepared in advance on the original residence, and the empty beehive door is consistent with the original bee colony, that is, the original bee colony opens the left side of the nest door, the empty beehive opens the left, and the original bee colony opens the right side and the empty beehive opens the right side.
Then, after removing about half of the nests from the two beehives, put them on the side of the empty beehives near the hive door, close the lid of the hive, move the king bee colony to a place five meters away, and let the collection bees fly back to the empty hive in their original location. Of course, if it is a colony with bee fever, the king should be removed. After about three hours, the collection bees will basically fly back to their original hive location. The original two boxes of bees seem to have become four boxes of bees, two boxes with kings are mainly young bees, and the other two boxes without kings are composed of field bees.
The next operation is to merge the colony, which is to merge the two boxes of bees with the queen bee and the queenless colony in the empty beehive. Adjust the spleen of the four beehives first, keep the spleen box scale, and spray air freshener separately. Then move the colony with the king to the side without the colony. Note that you are moving to the side of the target location, not back to the original hive position. Then, put the partition in the kingless group, put the king bee colony with the spleen, place it outside the partition, spray the air freshener, cover the box cover, and remove the partition the next day.
The above is the specific operation of the two boxes of bees to swap positions, and it is no different from your usual merging bee colony, if you understand the principle of merging bee colonies, there is no problem with the operation. That is to say, as long as you merge the bee colony, the bees do not fight and do not surround the king, then, the operation of the two boxes of bees to swap positions, the bees will also not fight and will not surround the king.